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The publication of Tilz SUN !slaw spaesß commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. s _~ J.v6 2V Z-1 m. WITH WATCH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1838. That the Tory fiction anticipated quite as large a mi nority as that of Thursday night, on the question of the Ballot, and were anxious, therefore, to do all in their power to diminish it, is evident from the amazing pains they took to stifle—or if not absolutely to stifle, at least to abridge—discussion, and prevent thearg,ussents of the Li beral Membersfrom having theirdue weight with the House. A variety of inexplicable sounds, mixed with much lively and strenuous cock-crowing —to say nothing of miscella neous yells and brays and hisses —commenced at an early hour of the evening, just as if the Regent's Park mena gerie had broken loose, and taken up its quarters on the Opposition side of the House. It is but just, however, to state, that no sooner had Lord Joirte RUSSELL com menced his speech, than these melodious interruptions ceased on an instant, as if by miracle. The most viva- cious Tory coc k- crow i ngs were h us h e d to per f ect stillness ; I and that which the Se AKER, with all the weight of his offi cial authority, was unable to prevent, was effected by the first few magic words of his Lordship that lie would never grant the Ballot ! It must be exceedingly comforting to the Noble Lord to see the high ettimation in which he is held by the Tories as an anti-Ballot declaimer. It must almost, we should think, console him for the ill success of his Consti:utional history, which, we have heard,- occa sioned his unlucky publisher a sciious indisposition, from which he has never since recovered. Lord BROUGHA M well observed last night in the House of Lords, in the course of a brief but forcible speech, that " another such victory as that of Thursday night, on the question of the Ballot, would be their Lordships' ruin." It would so, but hoc much more deplorable would the Tory victory have been, had those from tvhomweltad a right to ex pect support, but acted with common honesty ! Then the faction would not have been doubtfully victorious, but positively defeated. Had the numerous hangers•on of Ministers—those " small deer," who have secured a place, or are on the hunt for a place—but acted up to the profes sions which they made upon the hustings, and been sup ported by those in the Government who had led 113 to believe, and gained their elections in consequence, that they were not unfavourably di.posed to the Ballot—the question, so far from being left in a minority, would have been carried by a majority. In fact, it has been lost solely by treachery—and treachery of the worst dye. In vain would the Tories have attempted to howl it down in the House, hadnot the Ministerial hangers-on supported them. And the knowledge of this circumstance brings to our mind that colossal statesman, Mr. SHIEL. Where was this red-hot Liberal—this enthusiastic advocate for the liberty of the masses—when the question of the Ballot was under dis cussion ? Where were his tropes and metaphors, and glow ing patriotic apostrophes, which have been so often found available in the cause of truth and honesty ? We have looked long and anxiously, but we hare not found his name among the supporters of the Ballot. The Journals of the day give no record of his thundering culogiums in favour of the Ballot. How is this ? Is the distance from Greenwich to London so great that he could not possibly reach town in time for the discussion ? or has he been afflicted with a sudden indisposition, just at the critical period when the support of every honest man was most wanted in Parliament? We should be glad to have some explanation on this point ; and also, whether it is absolutely necessary that a Liberal Member who accepts a commissionership under Govern ment, should Ise saddled, by virtue of his office, with a gag and a muzzle We feel deeply on the subject of the Ballot ; because we cannot disguise from ourselves the fact, that it has been lost by the sheerest chicanery. It has not had fair play —nor any thing like fair play. What between open foes, and con cealed foes—between those who opposed it boldly and manfully, and those who ran away from it ; who shuffled from it ; who had not the courage to say either " Yes" or No"—the measure has been lost for the Session. But no, not wholly so. The Whigs have yet an opportunity of redeeming themselves. The door of repentance is still left on the jar. The questions of Triennial Parliaments and an Extension of the Suffrage, yet remain to be discusssed, and when these are brought forward, they may still have a chance of retracing their steps. But will they do so ? Not a bit of it. On all these points, we will venture to say they will he as infatuated as they have already shown themselves on the question of the Ballot. What, indeed, is to be hoped from a party whose leader in the House of Commons proposes, as a sub stitute for the Ballot, an appeal, which he trusts will be a successful one, to the tender mercies of the Tory landlords ? Can mortal simplicity—we were going to say im becility—go beyond this? So Lord JOHN RUSSELL actually thinks that he can persuade the faction to lay aside its favourite nostrums of bribery and corrup tion, and thereby diminish its influence in the House ; in order that he and his, may be enabled to say to Mr. GROTE, when be next brings forward the Ballot, " Lo, the Tory landlords have waxed virtuous ; there is no further occasion for your measure !" In this instance we look on his Lord ship's speech as the sheerest drivel ever inflicted on Parlia ment. To imagine, for one moment, that a Tory would ever be induced to lay aside the practices of intolerance, because a Whig Minister implored him, almost on bended knees, to do so, argues an unsophisticated simplicity and ignorance of human nature only to be met with in the re cords of the cradle. We here for the present dismiss this ungracious theme, which we have taken up with no captious or party views, but in a spirit of strict and resolute independence. It is by slow degrees—and Heaven knows with deep reluctance —that we have brought ourselves to think unfavourably of Ministers but we should be more infatuated than them selves, were we to disguise from ourselves the fact, that their recent conduct on the Ballot has been such as no honest man can possibly approve. As a body, they have deluded us up to the eleventh hour ; and at that critical hour, humbug being no longer available, they have stripped off their masks and shown themselves in their true colours. We have copied from the Chronicle an analysis of the division on the Ballot, from which it results, in the lan guage of the writer, that the Ministry could, by declaring for the Ballot, ensure its success in the House of Com mons. It appears that among the 200 voters, including tellers, for Mr. GROTE'S motion, there was only one Tory, Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR. Among the 317 opponents there were 63 Whigs, including the Ministers. Some of them, probably about a dozen, would not vote with the Ministers in favour of the Ballot, the remaining 51 would probably vote with them ; deducting, therefore, 51 from the ma jority, and adding that number to the minority, the division would be 266 against, and 251 for the motion : but there were 73 Liberals absent, and of them fifteen are in office, most of whom were kept away by their inclination to vote for the Ballot, and by their reluctance to oppose the Ministers. Adding them to the minority the number would be precisely equal, or 266 to 266. Of the other absentees a majority are known to be for the Ballot, so that allowing nothing for the influence of Government, which always determines a number of wavering votes, it is clear that if the Ministers had not voted against the Ballot, the question would have been carried in the house of Commons. The writer we have quoted remarks that the Ministers are at the head of 63 Whigs, and opposed to 200 of their own regular supporters ; and he pertinently asks, Can this go on ? Can the Ministers remain in office, or posing on an almost vital question the bulk of their own friends? The notes, in an article which we also quote, gives its answer to this question, by calling on the Ministers to dismiss Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN, Mr. ROBERT STEUART, and others who support the Ballot, from office. A measure of that kind would at once place them in a rdnor'ty, and put an end to their possession of power. Such a step they ❑either can nor would take to gratify the Tories. The true answer to the important question above asked, is to be found in another. Do the Ministers more need the support of the Reformers, than the Reformers need the z:ssistance of the Ministry ?If the latter be the case—if the Reformers find or suppose that they cannot attain any of their objects, txcept bythe instrumentality of the MELBOURNE Cabinet— tl.is state of things may go on, and the Ministers, uniting with the Reformers on other questions, may keep posses. sion of office. But the Ballot is peculiarly a consti tuents' question ; they insist oa it. The bulk of the in telligent electors, both in town and country, regard it as vital to their security, and it will be some thing quite new in the history of this and of every nation, if the millions, the mighty constituencies of the empire, can not, when bent on an object, dispense with the services of any half-dozen of persons and attain the fulfilment of their wishes. If, indeed, Lord MELBOURNE were a ready and consum mate man of business, if Lord GLENELG were as prompt and vigorous as he is kindly and humane, if Lord HOLLAND could be incessantly active in support of his own princi ples, if Lord LANSDOWNE were as energetic as he is honest and well meaning, if Lord PALMERSTON were con sidered like the elder PITT to hold the destinies of Europe in his hands, if Lord JOHN RUSSELL had the commanding influence in the House of Commens of the younger PITT, if Lord Howicx were as bland and persua sive as he is intelligent and sincere, if Sir JOHN HOCHOUSE were as politically honest as the world once supposed, and as eloquent as his connection a ith Byron made every man fancy ; if, in short, each and all the Mi niste7s possessed the personal influence of a WELLINGTON in one House, and of PEEL in the other, the constituencies might be at once convinced that to attain any one of their ends, they must humbly support a Ministry which, having received power from them, uses that power to thwart their dearest wishes. Such, however, is not the ease ; over the Peers the Ministers have no influence what ever ; and we are bound to say that the Ministry, singly and collectively, are exclusively indebted to the Reformers and to the constituencies for their high places, and not to their personal influence or abilities. We are not ungrateful for what they have per formed, and without scrutinizing their motives too closely we gis c them credit for having rendered the country most impor tant services. But they have rendered them by fighting on our side. They have been placed in power, not from any par ticular love we bear them, but as the exponents of our opinions and the or;ans of our will. The Reformers sup ported them and honoured them because they were the children and champions of Reform. They were strong in our strength, not in their own ; and now that they fight against their friends and for their opponents, their power must depart from them, like that of Sampson when shorn by his faithless friend. The Ministers must be aware that there is not merely a conflict of parties, there is conflict of opinions in society. There may be a .juste Milieu policy by iialancing the opi nions and the interests cf the different classes, but there can be no Juste Milieu of opinions. Opinions are right or wrong, and they all are dependent on one another, and form a connected chain. He who subscribes to the doctrine of the Sovereignty of the People, cannot also embrace the opinion that the Aristocracy are to be the masters of the people. Adopting one or other of these opinions he must follow it out to its consequences, or be shut out from all party influence, and all political power. The Ministers, we understood, by their professions on several occasions, by their proposing to give municipali ties to to Ireland, by having given them to England, and by their having promoted Parliamentary Reform, fully re cognized the great doctrine of the:sovereignty of the people, and they are now acting against their own principles by re fusing the Ballot, in order to preserve the dominion of the Aristocracy. .Their conduct in resisting their own sup porters, is as inconsistent as it is impolitic. It is impossible to read the speeches made against the Ballot, and more particularly the speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL, without coming to the conclusion, that the real cause of the opposition to it has been kept entirely out of view. The great fear of the anti-popular party is, that is would be effective, that it would deprive all those land holders possessing property above 500/. a year, of the controul which they now exercise over their tenants, and that the Reform Bill, instead of being compa ratively inoperative, would become what Lord J. RUSSELL, seven years ago, intended it should be—the means of esta blishing a fair and impartial representation of the feelings of the people. The very inconsistency of the arguments of Sir R. PEEL, leads an impartial observer to the conclusion that there is more in his opposition than meets the ear. Inconsistent as he has often been, he far surpassed his former exhibitions, in that respect, on Thursday night. After long reasoning he came to the conclusion, that even supposing the utmost secrecy to be observed, the vigilant eye of the Steward, would find out defaulters, and that the secret cannot be kept, even by the parties themselves. Of what then is he afraid He is afraid that in " times of popular excitement, if the Ballot were in operation, the institutions of the country would be in great jeopardy and danger." The very same argument would apply agairist open voting. Has he so soon forgotten what took place during the excitement of the Reform Bill ? Has he forgotten that the great mass of the tenants of the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, of the Duke of Buc cexucx, and almost every Anti-Reform landed proprietor throughout the United Kingdom, voted in opposition to the wishes of the landlord ; and that with all the influence of property, and all the advantages of open voting, the Tories did not form a fourth part of the first Reformed House of Commons. True, he !said at the time that the institutions of the country not only were in jeopardy, but that with such a representative system it would be im possible for any Ministry to carry on the Government of the country. In 1834, however, he believed it possible even for a Tory Ministry and the most inefficient, toe, that ever was formed, to conduct public affairs; and in 1837, when bri bery and intimidation had done their work, his confidence rose still higher, and on the 20th of last November, he declared, with his usual solemnity, that "our institutions were perfectly safe in the hands of the intelligent and enlightened people of this country." Such tergiversatio n was expected from him, but it was not expected that the long-tried advocate of Reform would, after the scenes that occurred during the ate elections, have deserted the principle for which he ' contended in 1831, and be found on the same side with Sir ROBERT PEEL voting against the only effectual remedy for the gross injustice, the oppression, and often ruin, to which thousands of independent electors arc now ex posed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed no remedy, but he will have an opportunity on Thursday, next, and we there fore await with some curiosity the result of the motion of which Mr. CAYLEY gave notice last evening. The Irish Poor-law Bill made considerable progress in Committee last night. The general tone of the discussion upon it, manifested the absence of every thing like party spirit ; and it really seemed the heart-felt wish of the House, to render the measure as perfect as possible. Several amendments were proposed, hut they were rejected by large majorities. The Times, this morning, asks— - -• " Is it, or is it not desirable—nay, indispensable to the full enjoyment of his franchise, and to the defence of his own honour, truth, and consistency, by each individual voter— that he should have it in his power to turn to the poll-book on each successive election, and hold up to the country the evidence there recorded and unquestionable, that he had given his suffrage for this or that particular candidate, and thereby upheld, or endeavoured to uphold, certain public principles of which such candidate professed to be the organ ?" The one word " his" should be changed in this passage. The voter does not enjoy his franchise, nor record his suf frage, under the present system, but his landlords ; and he is merely the degraded instrument for giving supremacy to an opinion the reverse of his own, and success to a can didate not of his choice. The Times is quite aware that it misemploys the word " his," for it asks " whether the franchise ought to be intrusted to those who are debarred by their position in society from its free and independent exercise?" It knows that the constituency is dependent, and, like some other Conservatives, it would open up the Reform Bill, to give us what they call an improved, be cause a narrowed constituency. As they like only inde pendent men for voters, they should have those who are thorough reckless, for they alone are inde pendent. There is, however, no escaping the con clusion suggested by the two sentences of the Times. Either the Ballot must be granted, or the dependent con stituency must be changed for an independent one. The whole virtue of the Suffrage consists in its being his who gives it ; the dependent constituency cannot give their own suffrages. Lord JOHN RUSSELL ought now to be convinced, as we have already said, that to grant the Ballot is to raise a barrier against further change in the Representation. The Chronicle this morning will have the Reformers hope that a Reformer may start for the borough of Pem broke. We cannot agree with our Contemporary. Our correspondent there informs us that the two opposing par ties of Whigs and Conservatives have coalesced. The Mayor of Tenby has declared that he lays aside his per scnal feelings towards the OWENS, and supports Sir JAMES GRAHAM most cordially. No other person now has a chance, or can have a chance ; and as the election tikes place on Monday or Tuesday, no opposing Candidate will, we believe, enter the field. COAL MONOrOLY.--Why are there no petitions re specting this abominable tax upon the people ? We call on our friends, the Coffee-house, Eating-house, and Inn kQeperv, to take it up. The Parliamentary Committee on the Bill met yesterday pro forma, and will meet next week, when a number of petitions ought to be ready for them. The whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday have been received. In the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday the Minister of Commerce and Public Works laid on the table projects of laws for the construction of four Rail ways, and the digging of as many Canals in various parts of France. The canals were for uniting-1. The Marne and the Rhone ; 2. The Marne and the Aisne ; 3. The Ga ronne and the Adour ; 4. And a canal collateral with the Garonne, along the right bank of that river. The Railroads were for connecting-1. Paris and the Northern frontier ; 2. Paris and Havre ; 3. Paris and Orleans, and 4. Ly ons an d Marseilles. Th cost of these works is estimated at one hundred and sixty-seven millions of francs—a triflng expense when their immense importance, both in a national and commercial point of view, are taken into consideration. The intersection of France by Rail-roads will quadruple the internal trade of she country by cheapening the transit of all descriptions of goods, and effecting an inimense saving, in what is of the . utmost value to a commercial people—time. Towns now distant a week's journey from cue an other will be brought within the limits of a few hours' travel without danger, fatigue. or even exposure to to the inclemency cf the weather. More business will be done in a week in the tray of traffic th a n was previously performed in five ; and that, too, at comparatively as great a saving of money as of time. Then, to a military country like France, with an extensive frontier, liable to be invaded at so many points, rail-roads will render an army of 30,000 men as efficient for all defensive purposes as a force more than doubly as numerous with the old mode of conveyance. On c e ra il roa d s ar e estAblished, a few days will suffice to concentrate at any given point . the whole military strength o f th e ki ng d om --a fact which, when fully ascertained by the Chambers, will lead to a re duction of taxation, by rendering a large standing army altogether unnecessary. It is hardly necessary to refer to the conduct of the French Cabinet upo n R a il ways to b e conv i nce d o f itsim mense superiority over that of England in whatever has relation to practical' statesmanship. Among the French Ministers there are a l ways two or more statesmen o f busi ness habits, who take care to direct into some grand legiti mate channel the e n t erpr i s i ng sp i r i t of the commun ity. The interests of the nation are kept constantly in view, even while the Government seems only intent on pro moting , the success of the local sc h emes o f a Municipality or a Com pany. In England, on the other hand, the Government is composed of theoretical Aristo cra t s , alternately the repre sentatives of two r i va l f act i ons, who know nothing of prac tical statesmanship, and who seldom or never attempt it its consequences committi ng some b lunder more mischievous in consequences than the evil it was intended to remedy. Even when an opportunity presents i tself for effect i ng a great nationalimprovement, it is lost sight of by Ministers, who are for the most part too intent on the retention of office to spare a moment to the business of the country. Rarely does any m an i n G reat Britain, who is not an Aristo Fret by birth, ever attain to the dignity of a sea in the Cabinet, no matter how commanding m ay be his talent s , un l ess h e belong to the legal profession and have s p en t t h e b est part of his life i n studies calculated t o un fi t hi m for the every day duties of a really useful Mini s t er . H ence it is that the Government is a l- al ways the last to perceive the importance of any undertak ing, ho wever b ene fi c i a l to the industrious c l asses. Eight years ago, The Su n , unsupported by any ot h er portion of the Public Press, endeavoured, day after day for months together, to i m p ress th e G overnment w i t h the national importance of marking out, and giving every encourage ment to the for ma ti on o f certa i n lines o f ra il way, ra diating from Londo n , an d connect i ng, b y t h e c l osest commercial link, th e remotest manufacturing districts enand of the United Kingd om w i t h the Metropolis. We then noticed the immense adv a nt age we would derive from an was constructionearlier ti t ; of we theseremember roads w i well l England having n than upon the Conrepeatedly assured our Govern men t t h at if the then opportunity lost the Cabinets of Paris and Berlin would secur e to their people the start of us. B u t Mi n i sters were too busy watching the intrigues of the Court t o pay any regard to the prospective commercial interests of the country, and the consequence is that we must now b e content to move in the wake of Continental y - Europe. T o support, under the spe cious plea of eschewing monopoly, th e d o - nothing policy of ' the British Cabinet Ministers leave th e ent i re direction and management of railways in the hands of private speculators, who have made a species of South Sea b u bbl e of what should have been a national undertaking, superintend e d by Mi n i sters under the controul of Parliament. For gr eat li nes of road,' connecting the extremities with the heart of the Kingdom, we have zig-zag abortions of no earthly Use, but that of finding employment for engineers, and filling the pockets of jobbers and speculators. W e do not con tend that it was the duty of Government to have constructed the Roads at its own risk, while there were hundreds of capitalists ready to undertake such works ; but we do maintain that Ministers ought to have surveyed the Kingdom, and defined the exact route of every line by which it was to have been intersected. We c ontend further that a certain time should have been fixed for the finishi ng of each line, and that effectual measures o ug h t to have been taken to prevent the jobbing i n Sh ares to the shameful extent now familiar to ev ery man i n th e country. But practical statesmanship is not to be ex pected from the Aristocratic factions who alternately and hereditarily direct the destinies of England ; nor will a Government suited to the . wants of the times he formed, till the people can better:infe their ! f into it ..-Se spirit into it than they can by the occasional appointment of a plebeian Attorney-General. Our leaders of faction . are clever enough in the management of a Court . intrigue, but they are sad bunglers of the commercial affairs of a great and powerful empire. _ After the presentation of the projects of laws for Rail ways and Canals, M. PASSY brought forward the question of Slave Emancipation. The Chamber was in the act of THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1838. discussing the merits of his motion when the mails left Paris for London. There is no other news of any interest in these Journals. ESPARTERO boasts that by his rocent victories he has clipped the wings of the PRETENDER'S ambition. Bilboa is safe, and no fresh expedition can cross the Ebro. Thus saith the Spanish Commander-in-Chief. FRENCH FUNDS -Pastas, FED. IS. Five per Cents.. 109 f. 63e. &lc. Three per Cents., 79f. 6 c. 65c. Bank Actions, 2,4'25f. 2,697 f. 50c. 2,695 L Bente de Naples, 99f. 99f. 10c. sc. 10c. Roman Five per Cents., 101 X %X. Spanish Actives, BM X%%. Spanish Passives, 4. Belgian Loan, 1044 , ;. Belgian Bank, 1,532 f. 50c. Haytian Loan, 390 f. EICNANGIL ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 4734 c.; money, 25f. 4N,c Three months, paper, 25f. 35e.; money, 25f. 323ie. LAST PRICE'S. Five per Cents. 109 f. 65e. Three per Cents., 79f. '7oc. Bank Actions, 2695 f. Romans, 101 X. . Belgiaa Loan, 101'4. Belgian Bank, 1,532 f. 50c. Spanish Actives, I*, Spanish Passives, 4. Spanish Differes, Hayden Loan, 320 f. BELGIAN I. UNDS-BaussEts, Frn. 14. Actual Debt, N per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. Loan of Thirty Loan of City, 1132, 4 per Cent 99 Society of Commerce, 4 S s ', per Cent 137 Bank of Belgium, 6 per Cent 143 National Society . - Brussels Papers, Feb. 14. DUTCH FUND3.-Ausrcanast, FEB. 13. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A wort Syndic, 4 per cent 944, 94X Ditto, ditto, 3 4 per cent. 77X 784 Commercial Company, per cent 1784 179 1 ,y Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Loan 18436, 4 per cent. Ditto 1837, 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Two month: AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIEXNA, Fee. 7. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 14375 —Allgemeine.Zeitung, Feb. 12. The latest advices from Madrid are of the 7th inst. inclusive. The Chambers have legalized the Ministerial Decree for imposing a new war subsidy to the amount of sixty millions of rials upon Porto Rico and Cuba. The Government by such means hopes to induce French and English capitalists to enter into a contract for a fresh,loan, but no money can be procured save on terms ruinous to the future financial interests of the Peninsula. Our Ambassador, Sir GEORGE VILLIERS, received on the sth, despatches from the Northern Provinces, repre senting the recent victories obtained by ES?ARTERO as tantamount to a breaking up of the Pretender's last resources; and as the Commander-in-Chief deems it a duty to make the world acquainted with the splendour of his warlike achievements, the hall of the Cortes has re echoed the shouts of applause with which Ministers hailed his Excellency's account of his recent victories at Balma ceda. Nevertheless, the real truth is that Spain was never in a more deplorable condition than she is at this moment. She is now without money, without credit, without avail able resources, without a firm Government, without a well paid and well disciplined army, without a fleet, without an officer, civil or military, of commanding character or great talents ; her SOVEREIGN an infant, the REGENT an intriguing female, and her extensive territory distracted with all the horrors of a predatory civil war—which, after four years of strenuous exertion on her part, is as potent for evil as it was at the commencement. Such is the real state of Spain ; and Heaven only knows when her condition will be ameliorated. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY,TWELVE O'CLOCK. A vesel, called the Hibernia, has arrived off Holyhead, two days later, from New York, of the 2Gth ult. No papers or letters as yet received. TUI FUNDS. In consequence of the Bank of England having lowered their rate of Interest, from five to four per cent., a vast deal of business was done I❑ the course of the day in most of the British Stocks, and some extensive purchases were made; the Scotch Banks, also, bought some Three and a_Half per Cents. the boars of Stock became alarmed, and many of them changed their accounts. In the course of the morning Consols reached 92 N, buyers for the Account, but towards the close of the Market they declined to 92i , and closed at that price. Consols opened this morning at the game price. Exchequer Bills, 55 57 ; India Bonds, 55 57; Bank Stock, 2051 206 ; India Stock, 266. In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock, which improved in the course of the day to 74i, did not maintain its price. and receded to 731 owing to the information in the private letters from Bahia that the in surgents were determined to make an absolute resistance ; they were well supplied with money. Brazil Stock opened at the same. There was a little improvement in Spanish Active, which closed at 19 % ; opened at same ; Por.ugnese Stock closed at 2.7 opened at same ; Three per Cents., IS ; Mexican, 29 ; Colombian, 971 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53% 34. A meeting took place yesterday at the City of London Tavern, at which it was resolved to memorialize the Lord Mayor and the Gresham Committee, to remove the Change from Guildhall to the Excise office. A letter was received at the meeting from Mr. Spring Rice, expres. sive of his consent to the proposal. Arrivals this morning—French mail, ship letters from New York, by the Sheffield. It i 3 supposed that the arrival of the Hibernia from New York, off Holyhead, is not correct. We shall ascertain, by thesccond arrival from Liverpool, if correct or not. We are very dull in the City, owing to the bad state of the weather and so few arrivals this morning. PRICES OF STOCKS THu. Bank stock ......... ............ ' 2 os t,, 2 per Cert. ileg. 93 % 14 3 per Cont. Cons ..«.... ...91%14 1 4 . ..X1 ]'4 N.: Cent Ditto Red. 100, 4 1,4% New 3>4 per Cow 100,,,N New 5 per Cent.. . .. Ba.ik I . , ..ngAnnuitiesto expire Jan. 5, 1860.... — Oct. 10. !Asi) — Jan. 5, 13(10 — Jan. 5, 13tY0 April 5, ISS' - '4ll. 5, 177 , 1 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AustT:All Bonds Beigion B - .rids lO3 Ditto Account — Braailion Bonds .. Ditto Acc.lunt 74 3 V 2 :,'i Buenos Ayres Bonds ..• Ditto Account ... ..... .......... :billion Bonds. .................. Ditto ' , S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK fitdia Stoer SCS Ditto Rom!: 1 South Sea Sax k Old . thunities ... —. Nf W Oitto . ~.......•..... -3 rei Cent. Annuities, !Mi., -- , Exch. Bills, £ 1,4 v' 55 57 urn Ditto •......•..•..•..,504 1 ...... 5 . 57 pm. Date Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — pin Bank stock for Account . SO India Stock for Account — COP go's for Acconnt - ,N, THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 1 Peruvian fionds — Ditto Account ••••••••• ......... •• Portuguese Bonds — Ditto Account Vitt° New Bonds 27N 1 Ditto Account .. 27% t 4 att.°, 3 per cent.... ....... Prussian Bonds ___ Danish . Is ic n c tis oun .. t . .. _ ._. Russian Bends, 1822 . Columbian Bonds ...... ... Ditto Account... Ditto Account. . ...." .. Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, in' ........27y 2 % Spanish Bonds • Ditto Aczount .. •.•.... 273 i Y,,% Ditto Account — Ditto Bend.s.lß.ll 19 % 1,, 19 Ditto Account ..... ......... ... Ditto Accnont 19 % 1A 19 Greek Bonds., ..... . ... ........ French, 5 per cent.......... —l. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1625 "" ----- 4 per cent. ....... ... —l. —c. Ditto Account —. 3 per cent. 79 25% 7, lexican Boncis, 5 per cent — Exchange 2s°. 50„. Ditto Account . ..... ........... Dutch, Ti per cent 5l O/t7 Ditto, 6 per cent. - 293 Ditto Account — NDitto Account... ....... ...:29% ii 1 Ditto, 5 per cent . l O -2%3i 3 Lopoliz.tn —l Ditto Account ... ........... ... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per share. Oristol and Exeter Railway Company lu 6 '4 % commercial Blackwall Railway Company . 2 6 5 - i, 6% Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company ...... :.stern Counties Railway 3 2.4 2 Ckeat Western Railway Company fii 843 5 Harwich Railway Company 1 0 % Hull and Selby Railway Company lO 6 R'iahto. Railway company London and Mackwall Railway Ditto Scrip 3 6 ,i% 7 1a 1 endon and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 18 London and Southampton Railway Company 5O 40 34 London and Southampton (New) Railway i 21.4 Nl:mchester and Birmingham Railway 7 0 %4 Northern and Eastern Railway Company ... London and Westminster Bank 2O 21 34 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. C.F. 12 6 Amsterd ..m Hato, at sight Rotten:bun 2U. 12 6 Genoa 26 15 Antwerp... Harnlsurg. M.B. 1313% Venice 46 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Palermo per oz. 11734 Ditto 3 Ma. 25 95 Lisbon 534 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Mains, Ex. M 15334 Bahia 25 Petersbutgh, ruble 3 Us. 1U Buenos Ayres -- ictttiove 8 2 M. 107 , 3 1 , C D o u r b k iln, 21 days' sight Bcrlin 1 1 T c V ms d r i a e i d e n i s ri n t i e d : .. ' .. ............... .................. 3 5, 1 0 5 4 13 PRlCEPortugalForeign Gold,O o k o ' l BULLION, d in, obarsin N. Doul - 0 J3ilboa •••• • ew abloons B ircelona 94 Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. o w ing to the badness of the weather, with a heavy fall of snow, the second Liverpool letter is net expected to arrive before late in the after. noon, consequently we cannot confirm or contradict the arrival of the Hibernia from New York, off Holyhead. Consols were in the early part of the morning at 92i for the At. c ount ; since which the market became heavy, and they receded,to 92i ; purchases being effected a reaction took place, and Consol s but a m may 'tineqeuoted at present 92i 4 for Account ; Exchequer Bills 55 57 : India Bonds 55 57 ; Bank Stock 2051; India Stock 265. In the Foreign Market little doing. Brazilian Stock not so good as also lower, ea rly part of the day, and have reeeded to 734. S pan i s h A ct i ve 19 ; Portuguese 271 ; Mexican .29} ; Colombian 27} ; Dutch Two.and-a-half per Cents. 53; A good deal is doing in Shares. Brighton 51 premium. THREE O'CLOCK. Cons'li ibr the Account, 924 3 BALLOT.—The following petitions were presented by Mr. Hume on Thursday evening from four parishes in Kil kenny, St. Patrick. St. Mary's, St. John's, and St. Canices ; from Wemyss, in Fifeshire ; from Carnarvon, Highgate, Kil burn, and Willsden, all praying for th© Ballot, Extension of Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments. THE ELGIN BURGHS.—Mr. Fox Maule would be returned this day without opposition as Representative of the Elgin Burghs. The state of the roads and irregularity of the mails have prevented our receiving the intelligence, but the n omination was to take place this forenoon, Tuesday, the 13th instant, and no other candidate had taken the field. Op position, indeed, was from the first hopeless.—lnverneds Courier of Wednesday. COMMUTATION OF TITHES. ---From returns laid before Parliament by the Tithe Commutation Commissioners, i t appears that up to Dec. 31, 1837, five cases of tithe com mutation have been actually completed by apportionment. In eac h of these cases the tithe owner was an ecclesiastic. The number of meetings up to the same date which have been held under the Tithe Con.ii.utatiun Act has been 3,360, and 889 agreements between the parties have been received by the Commissioners, 467 have been confirmed, 16 have been re jected, and 406 are under consideration. ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMIT TEE.-(TIIIS DAY.) The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. Mr. Sergeant MKREWETHOR resumed his argument. After referring to the cases, upon which Mr. Austin relied as establishing the point that the existence of a riot was of itself sufficient to invalidate an election, the Learned Sergeant contended that even upon the authority of the precedents which Mr. Austin himself cited, unless the riot affected the majority, it was clearly the law of Parliament, that it would not prejudice the return. He alluded in particular to the Coventry cases of 1827 and 1823—arguing that it was the petitioner's duty, in bringing his case before the Com mittee, to have proved not the 73 being the number required to give his client's actual majority out of the 108, as contended by Mr. Austin, but merely 46, being the number required to turn Mr. Elliott's majority. His Learned Friend had laboured to es. tablish this point, referring to the case of Rutherford Sheil in support of ; his argument, this being the individual who went to Hawick on the first day of polling, and after remaining there three hours returned to his home, pretending that he was unable to reach the poll, from his apprehension of being ill-used by the crowd. It was quite clear from the lists called for by the Hon. Member for Marylebone, that petitioner could not make any thing of this part of the case. It had been proved by these lists that at Hawick, out of 645 qua lified electors, 537 of them had polled, leaving 108 absentees. At Jedburgh, where there was no allegation of riot, out of 609, 588 had polled, leaving 1 1 1 unpolled ; and at Kelso, out of 520, 437 had polled, leaving 83 unpolled. It was obvious from these returns that there was scarcely any difference between the numbers unpolled in the different districts; and the plain inference was, that the riots at Hawick, if the cases of individual assaults which had been proved could be so called, could not iu any way have influenced the election. IPSWICH ELECTIONCOMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) At the corvmeneement of this day's scrutiny, the following was the state of the revised poll : Gibson. Kelly. Tunell. Wason. Original Poll Objections allowed—Votes struck off l3 13 15 16 Revised Poll 5BB 580 580 577 The Committee now proceeded to take a new class of objections, founded on the value of the qualifications of the 101. householders. The first objection was taken by the Tories to the ♦ote of Mr. Ship, Stoke Bridge. After hearing a great deal of contradictory evi. dence, which, with speeches of Counsel, occupied till past 2, the Com mittee retained the vote. BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY). Mr. ANDREWS concluded his arguments in defence of Mi. Gibson's qualification. Mr. WHITESIDE, at some length, replied ; and about half-past one the Committee ordered the room to be cleared. They remained in deliberation till three o'clock, and then decided that the qualification was not valid. BRISTOL ELECTION COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) The Committee met at Eleven o'Clock this morning.' The CHAMMAN said the proceedings closed yesterday by Mr. Talbot proposing to put in a paper, produced by the Under-Sheriff: The Com mittee was then unable to decide on the point, in consequence of the Speaker having taken the Chair, and the room had now better be cleared. This was accordingly done, and in about twenty minutes the public were re-admitted- The CHAIRMAN then announced that the Committee had decided that the document proposed to be put in by Mr. Talbot as evidence could not at present be received as evidence. Mr. HARE was then examined to prove that the Liberal Association and the Charity Trustees had apartments in the Albion Chambers under the same roof. lie stated that he had seen Mr. Briton and Mr. Hartley there. The next question was, "In what capacity did Mr. Briton act 2" This was objected to by Mr. Austin, and the Committee suggested that the witness might be asked " what Mr. Briton did," Mr. Wortley said that was all he wanted, and asked, " What did you see Mr. Briton du ?" Witness—Nothing.—(Loud laughter.) In answer to questions by the Committee, the witness said the Adelphi Chambers were like chambers at inns of court—they were distinct suites of rooms. Mr. T. Jackson, own-officer in Chancery, produced the writ for the election at Bristol, dated the 17th July. Mr. Flare, in answer to questions made by Mr. AUSTIN, said that the return was signed by Charles Payne and Joseph Cockran, two of the petitioners.—(Laughter.) Mr. John Arundel, clerk to Messrs. Drummond, was called to prove an entry in the ledger of that establishment, but it appearing that it had been made from the cash-book, an objectsou was taken by Mr. Austin, and the clerk who made the entry in the cash.book was sent for. John Howell, a baker, residing in Alfred-street, Kingsdown, Bristol, was then called, and detailed a conversation which took place between himself, Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Robert Fisk, and Mr. Harman Visgar, a few days before the election. He stated that Mr. Berkeley, at the close of the interview, presented him a tract, saying, " Perhaps after you have read that you will be disposed to alter your mind." He had not that tract in his possesion, nor could he say what became of it. He examined it with another copy a day or two after receiving it, and found it to correspond. He could not say that the copy produced was the one which he compared. . Mr. ADOLPHUS objected, that the pamphlet proposed to be put in by Mr. Talbot could not be received as evidence. The Committee decided that the course proposed by Mr. Talbot was inadmi,sible. Benjamin John Fowler, a journeyman shipwright, of Bristol, deposed that the day before the nomination, Mr. Berkeley and Mr. Cunningham came to the yard where he was working. Mr. Cunningham gave him the tract (produced.) It was " lowance" time when they came; and they had two or three gallons of beer extra, witness got one glass. There were between fifty and sixty men in the yard ; witness is not a voter. The witness was cross.cxamined at very great length for the purpose of showing that the paper produced was not the identical one given by Mr. Cunningham. His answers were in several instances of a rather con tradictory nature. Mr. THESSIGER then proposed that the paper should be put in and read. Mr. CROWDER obj 'eted to its reception, on the ground •that it had not been properly identified. The Committee decided that the papers should be received. Mr. TALBOT here proposed to read the paper, but on searching for it it could not be found. John Blair, sawyer, in the employ of Mr. Hillhouse, shipbuilder, produced a tract which he received from Mr. Cunningham in the pre score of Mr. Berk&ey. About 100 others were distributed amongst the men in the shipyard at the time. DELAY OF THE MAILS. General PoA•office, Saturday, Feb. 17, 1838. ONE O'CLoex.—ln consequence of the heavy fall end drifting of the snow between Exeter and Falmouth, the mails from the West of England, below Exeter, which were due here yesterday and this day, have not arrived. In Scotland, also, the interruption to the correspondence, from the same cause, is very great. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall today. MOSS V. LEIGH. The arguments in this case, which have already occupied the Court some days, were resumed to-day. The bill was filed by certain creditors of a person named Leigh, who had formerly carried on the business of a merchant at Liverpool. In the year 1811 Mr. Leigh was declared a bankrupt, and the bill charged, that previous to the period of his bankruptcy, and in anticipation of it, he had colluded with a solicitor of the name of Orred, to defraud the creditors to the extent of 8,000/. ; and that the derendant, Joseph Leigh, and a person named Tate, who had been appointed assignees under his estate, were cognisant of the fraud, but made no discovery of it to the creditors. The bill then stated that the creditors had lately discovered such fraud had been committed, and it prayed that the defendant Leigh, and the representatives of Tate and Orred, who were both dead, might be decreed to make good that sum of 8,0001 for the benefit of the estate of the bankrupt. From the statements in the bill, it appeared that the produce of two cargoes of ruin and sugar bad been assigned to Orred, to cover, as it was alleged on his behalf, certain advances made by him to Leigh. In answer to that, it was charged in the bill that Orielbeing the attorney of Leigh, and without character, heing engaged to defend him against many actions that had been brought against him for debts due from him, must have known the desperate state of his aff..irs, and that such an assignment could not prevail against the just claims of the creditors under the bank. ruptcy. On behalf of the defendant, it was urged that the whole of these transactions took place before the bankruptcy, and at a time when Leigh was in a state of perfect solvency ; that he had as many actions pending" against others as had been brought against him ; that the whole of the transactions had been submitted to a committee of the creditors, of whom Mr. Moss, one of the plantiffs was one ; and that that committee had pronounced them to be fair and honourable. Mr. SwaxaroNa and Mr. WIGRAM appeared for the plaintiffs, and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. WAKEFIELD, Mr. J. RusseLL, and Mr. Koa, were counsel for the defendants. The case had not concluded when we left. VICE-CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.) Hie Honor the VICR•CIIANCELLOR, who sat in his private room, in consequence of the aererity of the weather and the extreme coldness of the Court, leas occupied the whole morning with the part heard case of the Attorney-General and Jones. the argument in which had not con. eluded when we left. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, FED. 16.—Wind E.S.E., blowing strong throughout the day. --A barque from the Northward passed through the Downs to the Westward this afternoon, name unknown. Poarsmotrru, FEB. 16.—Wind E., squally, with snow. It blew very hard all last night from the East, with squalls and snow. It moderated a little this morning, but the wind is again increasing. Owing to the continuance of the gale and heavy sea, have not been able to ascertain the state of the Hopewell, reported yesterday on shore on the Horse Sand; she lays in nearly the same position as yesterday. WSYDIOUTII, FEB. 15.—Heavy gale all night at E.S.E.—The whole of the vessels in Portland Roads have drifted, with the exception of the barque George, Welsford; but all riding very heavy. DUBLIN, Fix. 15.—Arrived the Grey, Douglass, from St. John's, New Brunswick; George and Henry, Wallahan, from Oporto : Bolina, Leogloie, from Gibraltar; and Shannon steamer, from London. BlunFoen, FEB. 1 6.—Arrived the Ariel, from St. Michael's. The Atlas, Pearce, from Dublin to London, and the Nottingham. Court, of Weymouth, were driven on shore near Portland, during a heavy gale, 15th inst. . _ the Governor, Douglas, from l'adstow, put inte Cork with loss of miser' masts, &c., bound to St. John's, N.B. The Emilia, Gosordi, for Cadiz, was ruu on board of by the Somerset, Ordnance ♦essel, and carried away her bowsprit and jibboom off Graves. end, and remains here. The George the Fourth, from Falmouth to Llanelly. was wrecked near Tenby, 15th inst. Crew saved. Tha Liverpool, Meyler, froni - aierford to Liverpool, sunk in Beau. saris Bay, I;th inst. Crew saved. The following has been potted at Lloyd's : Greek Consulate General, Feb. 6, 1835. Sir,—l beg to inform you that I have just received advice from my Government, of their having publicly notified, under date of '29th No. vember (11th December) last, that a fit and proper Lazaretto is esta blished in the port of Perdas, only for persons and vessels comivg from places infected, or suspected of being so, and not carrying gooris sus ceptible of contagion. yo u will please, therefore, to make such ci,m munication of this as you think proper to the commercial public, for their information.—l have the honpur to be, Sir, &c. Bze. (Signed) To W. DobioD, Fsq., Secretary, Lloyd's. REFUGE FOR THE HOUSELESS AND THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Acting, as we feel ourselves proud to do, as an advocate for all that is useful to the working classes, and all that is hu mane to those v-ho cannot get work, and are destitute, and wretched, we felt it to be our duty to make a personal exami nation of the refuge fur the Houseless, in the City of London, Playhouse-court, Whiteeross-street. We found that the refuge was a very large building, divided into six wards, the top one for females—poor wretches who must otherwise perish in the streets, having no place wherein to dwell, here receive a night's lodging and food. When they apply, their names, last residences, and employment, are taken down. They are then provided with warm water and soap, and directed to wash themselves ; after which half-a-pound of bread, with water, is given to them ; they are then placed on clean straw, divided by planks from each other, to prevent contagion, in an apartment with a good fire and well ventilated. In tho morning, when they rise, they have a similar quantity of bread and water given to them, and are discharged. On Sundays each individual receives three po:.nds and a half of bread with three ounces of cheese, and has the option of hearing the Church service and a sermon in the morning from a clergyman, who is paid for officiating, and in the afternoon from benevolent individuals, who gratuitously volunteer their services. In this way, during the dreadful in clemency of the weather, from The 9th of January to the 14th of February, up to which day our inquiries are extended, not less than fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-four nights lodgings had been thus provided, and 37,406 ration thus distributed. Among the benevolent individuals who not only gave their money, but their personal attention night after night to this institution, Mr. Duncan Campbell ( who ought to be called the second Howard), and the celebrated Dr. Conquest, stand conspicuous. Their labours arc incessant, and the scenes of woe they have to witness harrowing in the extreme. Many cases occur, in the west end of the town especially, among poor foreigners, whom the tyrants of the Continent have driven to our shores, in order to meet which a building has just been taken in South square, Westminster. As sickness and disease are frequently the companions of poverty and destitution, an arrangement has been made with the Committee of the " Royal Free Hospital," and hundreds of cases have already been attended to (sent from the " Houseless") by Mr. Gay, and the other surgeons of that excellent establishment, which the wealthy citizens of London have recently shewn a most praiseworthy alacrity in supporting. To lessen human misery is an object infinitely dearer to us than the squabbles of party for place, and most glad shall we be if the publie notice we have taken of these valuable institutions increase their funds or conduce to their reputation. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. 'We last night witnessed, at this theatre, the second representation of the new play—The Lady of Lyons ; or, Love and Pride. The scenery, we are informed by the bills, is laid in Lyons and its neighbourhood; and the action extends over the years between 1.796 and 1798. The subject upon which the play is founded, is the love of two young and generous hearts—blighted, in the warmth of its first affection, by the cold and withering influence of worldly pride, but finally triumph ing over every obstacle, through the strength of its ardent, constant de votedness. The story possesses considerable interest; and though the inct dents are not very powerful or striking, and sometimes verge on the impro bable, it is developed with great dramatic effect. The language of the play is generally excellent it is often characterised by a poetic richness of expression, and a nobleness of sentimeht, which are rarely seen in modern dramas. The defects in the piece are such as may easily be remedied. There frequently is a too close connection of the " tragical" with the " co mical"—a too rapid descent from the sublime to the ridiculous; by which the effect of some Of its best passages is marred or utterly destroyed. And there is now and then a tendency to something savour ing rather of political allusion, which should be studiously avoided 0 0 the stage. The principal characters were admirably sustained by Mr. Maeready and Miss. H. Faucit. We shall perhaps best describe both the p l a y and the acting, not by merely giving a dry analysis of the plot, according to the mode of criticism now usually adopted—a custom, in our opinion, " more honeured in the breach than the observance"—but by following the progress of the story, and employing, when memory shall enable us, the author's language. Madame Deschappelles (Mrs. W. Clifford) is the wife of a rich Ly° - nese merchant (Mr. Strickland) is a woman, blindly attached to the pomp and distinction afforded by high rank, and anxiously resolved to secure for her daughter Pauline (Miss Faucit),—the fairest "lady of Lyons"—' an alliance with a noble family. Pauline's gentle and Innocent mind i s dazzled by the ambitious aspirings of her mother, and pride forms " the sole alloy of her most lovely spirit." Claude Melnotte (Mr. Macready)► the son of Mons. Deschappelle's gardener, from his childhood has known and loved Pauline. The affection of his youthful days had acquired, as h e grew towards manhood, the strength of a deeply_seated passi on ' He adored her with the fervid devotion of an enthusiasm ardent, noble, and high-minded, he dedicates all his energies to the at tempt of rendering himself worthy of her to whom the every aspiration of his soul was directed. At length, encouraged by the acceptance of some bouquets of Rowers he has sent her, he ventures to send her some poetry, in which he does homage to her beauty, affixes his own na lne to the composition. The paper is returned with contumely. In the first moments of outraged feeling, he is induced to join Beausa rt and Glavin (Mr. Elton and Mr. Meadows) two rejected suitors of Pau line, in a conspiracy to effect their revenge by marrying her, with their aid, under the disguise of an Italian Prince, and he takes an oath to be steadfast in his purpose. The scheme succeeds ex cellently well; and, as Prince of Como, he woos and wins Pauline. These is a very amusing scene here, in which Mr. Macready admirably displayed the easy nonchalance—the dignified selt.possession—the polite gaiety of his assumed character. Left alone with Pauline, the con versation turns upon the advantages of rank. She speaks of its pos.. sessors as— " The representatives of a noble ancestry." The reply was loudly applauded by the audience. " Aye, but, like other repre. sentatives, the are nine times out of ten but silent members. I scorn to borrow laurels from forgotten graves I Not to the past, but to the future, looks true nobility, and seeks its blazon in posterity." Th e n at her request he describes, in glowing colours, the happiness which awaits her :—" Shall I paint the home to which, could love fulfil its prayers, this hand should lead thee—a deep vale, shut out by Alpine hills from the rude world; near a clear lake, margined by groves of myrtle, glossing upon its surface a sky as cloudless, save by rare and roseate shadows—as I would have thy face. At noon, while listening to the music of birds, whose songs shall syllable thy name, we'll sit i be neath the arching vine, and wonder why earth should be unhappy , heaven halls left us hive. At night, standing under the spang led firmament, we'll guess what star shalt be our home where love becomes immortal—the air, breathing ambrosial perfumes,and he every breeze heavy with the sighs of orange-groves. Dost liko the picture?" ?" Mr. Macready's pronunciation of this passage Was the most finely toned and harmonious elocution we ever heard. A line oc curs in this part of the play which was much applauded— " Honest men are the gentlemen of nature." The most important scene, and that in which the acting of Mr. Mac ready and AEU Faucit was exhibited to the greatest advantage, W's that where Melnotte, having married Pauline, conducts her to the humble cottage of his mother, and the unhappy bride discovers the deception of which she has been made the victim. We never beheld a more striking triumph of histrionic genius than the ghastly look of conscience.stricken agony with which Mr. M acrea dy—slowly re veal. Mg the countenance, which, overwhelmed with shame and remorse, he had buried in his hands, spoke more eloquently than words could have done, in answer to Paulino's wild inquiry, the dreadful confirmation of his guilt. The effect was electrical. Nor much less impressive was Miss Faucit's expression of Pauline's frantic hysterical grief, on learning the extent of her misery. Nothing could be more touching than the tender accents of deep but subdued emotion in which Mr. Macready uttered the pathetic address to her, when he recounts the story of her love, and tells her "for thy sake I strove to rise from the prison in which my mind was confined, by the fetters of low birth, and iron fortune, and sought these jewels which aspiring minds win Irons the caves of knowledge. "1 hy bright mind mirrored in my soul, lured me on to those aspiring toils by which man masters man. For thee I grew a midnight studen t over the works of agent sages—for thee I strove to borrow from each muse, and every grace, such attributes as lend their charms to love, I thought of thee, and passion taught me poesy—of thee, and on the painter's canvass bloomed thy matchless beauty : life became the shadow of the dear starlight of thine eyes ; man laughed; some called me mad : I heeded not! but still toiled on, hoped on, for it was sweet, if not to win, to feel more worthy of thee!"—Melnotte—as the only reparation he make to the injured Pauline, gives his co nse nt to their divorce—hoping, that " when on l y half for g otten, s he wilt remem ber that heaven left some remnant of the an g el y et in t hat poor peasant' s heart,"—" the past is gone, but there is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent, and the energy to atone." During his tem porary absence,—to send for her father, Beausart comes to gloat over the wretchedness of his victim; he makes dishonourable proposals to her, which she rejects with indignation, exclaiming—" A husband's home, however lowly, is the temple of a wife's honour i" The dignity of conscious virtue which marked Miss Faucit's utterance, and the sentiment itself, elicited great applause. Beausart is proceeding to offer violence to her, when Melnotte rescues her. He then bids farewell to her I' so wildly worshipped; so guiltily betrayed," and enters the French army. s In two years and a half he rises to the rank of Colonel. He returns to Lyons, to find her about to be married to the detested Beausart. He is present under an assumed Lame, which helms borne in the army on occasion when the marriage contract is to be signed—introduced to Pauline as the friend of Melnotte, lie hears from her lips that she is compplled to the hated union to save her father from ruin, who is on the verge of bank ruptcy, and can only be rescued by the sum which Beausart offers for her hand; that her love fur Melvotte is as strong as ever, and that she would gladly share with him a peasant's lot. A fines effect was produced when Mr. Macready, throwing off the disguise of his martial cloak, snatches the fatal contract fron Beausert just 3 9 Pauline is about to sign it, and tears it into a thousand fragrne OS, exclaiming, I n the eyes of God and man, I have a prior claim. I outbid you, sordid wretch. Take this gold—nay, blush not, old man—there's not a coin but has been hallowed, in the cause of nations, by a soldier blood I" heart. With a fine burst of passionate rapture clasps his beloved to his SILVER PLATE.—Purchasers may select from a variety of patterns of SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, some of the patterns having much merit and novelty ; at T. COX SA VORY'S, Silversmith, Watchmaker, and Goldsmith , 47, Cornbills London, (Seven doors from Gracechurch street. ) The best wrought Silver Spoons and Forks, Fiddle Patterns, 7s. 2d. per ounce ; the King's Pattern 7s. 4d. per ounce. The following are the weights recommended, but the articles loaf be had lighter or heavier at the same price p (1 e r ounce : Fiddle Pattern oz. s. d. s. d. King's P attern oz • s. d. £ ,1 12 table spoons 30 at 7210 15 0 1. table 5p00n5... 40 at 7 4...14 13 12 de,sert ditto 20 72 7 g 4 12 dessert ditt0...20 7 4... 91 3 ° 4 12 table forks ...30 7210 15 0 12 table forks ...40 7 4...14 1 8 12 de-sert ditto 20 72 7 3 4 12 dessert ditto VS 7 4... 9 O a ' 0 2 gravy spoons 10 7'23 11 8 2 gravy spoons 12 7 4 ••• 1 sou ladlsoup ladle .... 12 7 4... 4 8 4 s auce ditto _JO O 78 3 It; 8 4 sauce ditto —.12 7 10.4 1 4 0 4 salt spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 0 4 salt ditto (strong gilt) ... 2 1 fish slice 12 tea spoons ...10 78 3 16 8 12 tea spoons ...1 4 7.•10 ' 5 1 5 1 pair sugar tongs Ol5 0 1 pair sugar tangs.. .......... e The ground floor, also the first, second, aid third fl oor s, are fitt up as Show Rooms, to contain' a large stock of Silver and Plated Goods, Jewellery, Watches, &c. ; and purchasers will find many au vantages, both in respect of Price and variety, at this Establishment.. N.B.—A pamphlet containing a list of Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, warded in answer to a post-pad applicatio or will be for- BIRTHS'. In Barbadoes, o n the 3d ult., the lady of the Rev. Thos. Clarks, of a son. On the 11th i ns t., i n Lower Brook-street, the lady of Dr. Hol land, of a dauuhter. London; Printed and Published MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count/ of Middlcsex.—Saturday, February 17, 1838•